Incoming 11th Grade Summer Reading and Assignments for all ISM IB A English Students, Year 1. Specific Course Reading Requirements:

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1 Incoming 11th Grade Summer Reading and Assignments for all ISM IB A English Students, Year 1 ISM English teachers have collaborated on a master book list for incoming juniors. Here you will find a variety of contemporary and classic novels, as well as a range of compelling nonfiction. Please see recommendations as follows below. Wherever you venture, be sure to pack your bags this summer and surround yourself with great literature! Expectations: Regardless of course selection, students are expected to read quality and enjoyable literature this summer Be prepared! Be aware that some teachers will assess your understanding of the literary text All teachers will begin the year with summer reading discussions and activities Higher Level A Lit students will present on one or both of their text s cultural context Specific Course Reading Requirements: Incoming juniors enrolled in IB A Literature : are to read two titles OR authors from the list below as well. Our first semester will be comprised of reading translated texts, and thus we want all students to read at least one translated text and/or a book over 100 years(ish) old, so you get a sense of a new cultural context you will complete a short presentations about this. We also strongly recommend students entering Higher Level Literature read TWO works by the same author to get a sense of authorial style, themes, and context Incoming juniors enrolled in the IB A Language & Literature : are required to read at least one title or authors from the list below. 1. You are required to read a book of your choosing from the list below. 2. You are required to bring three texts (PRINTED OUT) to the first class of the year. They must be different Mass communication (non-fiction) text types (see below for possibilities) and TWO they must be linked to the same current event in the media. For example: You could get an article about the US Drone Strike on Al Quaeda, Obama s speech which was an apology after the strike that killed two hostages, and an opinion column about Obama s Orwellian language on Drone Strike (you may not use this topic - find your own).

2 Mass communication text types (texts for a wide audience such as a magazine advertisement, newspaper article, opinion column, speeches, interviews, blog post, youtube video, political cartoon, photograph, pamphlet, brochure, website advertisement, biography, diary, editorial, letter to the editor, manifesto, parody, photographs, screenplay, song lyric, etc) ONLY ONE OF THE THREE TEXTS CAN BE A VISUAL OR VIDEO. The other two must be paper transcripts or copies of the text. About one current event over the last year. Translated Texts: Your Choices of Titles OR Authors WOO HOO! LET THE READING FUN BEGIN! 1. Jose Saramago: Blindness OR Death with Interruptions 2. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 3. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 4. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Inferno, Dante 6. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes 7. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8. Candide, Voltaire 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 11. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende 12. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 13. Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo 14. The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh 15. The Paradise of the Blind, Duong Thu Huong 16. Haruki Murakami - anything by him works :) 17. Persepolis 1 & 2, Marjane Satrapi 18. Broken April, Ismail Kadare 19. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto 20. Mario Vargas Llosa : The City & the Dogs ( The Time of the Hero ) or Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 21. So Long a Letter, Mariama Ba 22. The Master and the Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 23. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi 24. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 25. Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata Classic Novels and Commonly Taught IB Texts: 1. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 2. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

3 3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 4. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 6. East of Eden, John Steinbeck 7. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner 8. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 9. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 10. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 11. Uncle Tom s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 12. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 13. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 14. Catch 22, Joseph Heller 15. All the King s Men, Robert Penn Warren 16. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, Ken Kesey 18. Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor 19. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Contemporary Classics: 1. The Guide, R.K. Narayan 2. Midnight s Children, Salman Rushdie 3. Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh 4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga 5. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (short stories) 6. Games at Twilight, Anita Desai, (short stories) 7. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Waiting, Ha Jin 10. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, A Plague of Doves, OR The Round House Louise Erdrich 11. Fool s Crow, James Welsh 12. Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko 13. House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday 14. The Help, Kathryn Stockett 15. Let Great World Spin, Colum McCann 16. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 17. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy 18. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 19. Jazz, Toni Morrison 20. Beloved, Toni Morrison 21. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 22. Native Son, Richard Wright 23. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 24. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 25. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

4 26. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer 27. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 28. The Things They Carried, Tim O Brien 29. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 30. Atonement, Ian McEwan 31. On the Road, Jack Kerouac 32. The Life of PI, Yann Martel 33. Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 34. Bridget Jones s Diary, Helen Fielding 35. Cat s Cradle OR The Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut 36. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 37. The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan 38. In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey, Ratner 39. The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers 40. Jonny Got his Gun, Dalton Trumbo 41. White Noise, Don DeLillo 42. Short Stories, Borges 43. The Interpreter of Maladies, Namesake, and/or Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri 44. A Feather on the Breath of God, Sigrid Nunez 45. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers Non-Fiction: 1. Shakespeare, Bill Bryson FYI: HL1 Juniors will be required to read this over Christmas Break (you can procure your own copy or check it out from the TBC) 2. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman 3. How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran 4. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote 5. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer 6. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer 7. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard Memoirs 8. The Color of Water: A Black Man s Tribute to his White Mother, James McBride 9. Breaking the Silence, Lourdes Montinola (Filipino writer) 10. Chino and His Time, Vergel O. Santos (Filipino writer) 11. A Country Not Even His Own, Steve Psinakis (Filipino writer) 12. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip* (Vietnamese) 13. Red Azalea, Anchee Min (Chinese/Cultural Revolution) 14. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir, Chanrithy Him* 15. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi* (female freedom/literature issues in Iran) 16. Alicia, My Story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman (WWII holocaust survivor) 17. Our Street, Gilda O Neill (London during WWII) 18. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim O Brien (US Vietnam War veteran) 19. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walsh (Grew up in extreme poverty in rural US)

5 Travelogues 20. The Translator, Daoud Hari 21. Green Hills of Afric a, Ernest Hemingway 22. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing 23. Red Dust: A Path Through China, Ma Jian 24. Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (Australian) 25. The Places Between, Rory Stewart (British Journalist walks across Afghanistan) 26. Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux 27. Neither Here nor There, Bill Bryson 28. Lost on Planet China, J. Maarten Troost Top Book Recommendations from English teachers (right now): The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy The Stranger, Albert Camus Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Broken April, Ismail Kadare Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Natural, Bernard Malamud 1984, George Orwell No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, Ken Kesey Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits or Stories of Eva Luna Salman Rushdie: The Ground Beneath Her Feet or Midnight s Children Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Lumberjanes Noelle Stevenson and Brooke A. Allen The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Neuromancer William Gibson Saga Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Queen and Country Greg Rucka and Steve Rolston Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges Love and Rockets Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez

6 Cannery Row John Steinbeck One Hundred Bullets Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso American Gods Neil Gaiman Fables Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham Boneshaker Cherie Priest Gotham Central Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson Powers Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Usagi Yojimbo Stan Sakai The Ambassadors Henry James Sandman Neil Gaiman Mythology Edith Hamilton Bone Jeff Smith One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Understanding Comics The Invisible Art Scott McCloud Batman: The Killing Joke Alan Moore and Brian Bolland Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson The Wasteland, poetry by T.S. Eliot Translations and or Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett Beckett, a biography by Deirdre Bair Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole Beloved, Toni Morrison Jona and the Men of the Sea, soon to be published by Howard Butcher, Mr. Butcher s brother. Famous Last Lines, Short story collection by Mark Pearson Poems, by Seamus Heaney Beowulf by anonymous and translated by Seamus Heaney Poems by Mary Oliver.